LeBron James Opens Up About the Lakers’ NBA Bubble Championship

Mind the Game with LeBron James and JJ Redick

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Basketball, Sports

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Welcome back to another episode of Mind The Game with LeBron James and Steve Nash. The Finals are in full swing between the Oklahoma City Thunder and the Indiana Pacer and we decided to dive into the narratives surrounding small markets in The Finals, what makes a superstar and more. Then LeBron dives into what it’s truly like to play in the NBA Finals with the increase in media and hype. And finally, LeBron takes us back 5 years to the NBA Bubble and reveals new details about leading the Las Angeles Lakers to a Championship. This episode is quite a treat and we hope you enjoy. Thanks for listening!

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0:00.0	You have this encyclopedia of everything, basketball, what it takes.
0:05.8	How do you balance being dad and being able to help them?
0:09.3	You don't want to get on their nerves too much because they're tuning you out.
0:11.9	I mean, that's what having kids is all about.
0:14.1	They would tune you out.
0:14.9	I'd definitely be on their nerves a lot, but that's me.
0:17.9	That's me.
0:18.5	I mean, I'm like that. My son, he's, I don't know how it's decided it is if he wants to keep the ears.
0:23.6	But, you know, like, sometimes you know how it's like being a father.
0:26.6	I was saying, like, you know, Mattian, you got to get your elbow in and create this, like,
0:30.6	line to the basket. because I'm dad, not, you know, a former NBA player,
0:38.3	he's like, well, that's not the only way you can do.
0:41.3	There's this kind of thought out there that, like, you know, it won't be good to have two small market teams in the finals.
1:03.0	Like, I take offense to that.
1:05.7	Like, you know, like, look, I love big market legacy names.
1:10.1	I get why Lakers, Knicks, Celtics, you know, Warriors.
1:13.9	I get it.
1:14.4	I love it.
1:15.0	And it's great for our game.
1:16.5	But these are two fantastic basketball teams that are you very, very unique, you know.
1:23.1	How do you feel about this small market comments and like, where does this come from?
1:33.3	I don't know. I don't know where it comes from. Because, I mean, listen, I played in Cleveland for 11 years. And we were a small market, you know, so...
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